Valya Dudycz Lupescu is the author of The Silence of Trees and founding editor of Conclave: A Journal of Character. Combining her passion for writing with her love of art, she earned her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poetry and prose have been published in literary and genre magazines that include Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Abyss & Apex, Danse Macabre, The Pedestal Magazine, Gone Lawn, Jersey Devil Press, and Crack the Spine. Valya is currently at work on a novel set during the genocidal famine (Holodomor) of 1932–33 in Soviet Ukraine.
Winter 2016
Seven
Snow falls on the grave, and she leaves them standing in their circle, pickaxes on rounded shoulders, shovels at their feet. They hold their hats patched and faded, cheeks wet, […]